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US 5,657,021 AGranted
System and method for radar-vision for vehicles in traffic
AssigneeEhsani Engineering Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsShahrokh Ehsani-Nategh, Shahmir S. Ehsani-Nategh
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Abstract
A plurality of substantially interference-free radar systems, each comprising: means for generating pseudorandom waveforms for sequential transmission by radar; and a radar transmitting and receiving phased array antenna having a horizontal beamangle of a few milli-radians (mR), and a vertical beamangle of about 25 mR.
Claims8
A method for sensing mobile vehicles, comprising the steps of:
- (a) transmitting by radar sequential pseudorandom code waveforms;
- (b) tapping the pseudorandom code waveform transmitted in (a) and adjustably attenuating the tapped waveform to provide an attenuated version of the tapped waveform for cancellation of leakage of transmitted waveforms to a predetermined threshold;
- (c) receiving echoes of the transmitted waveforms and subtracting therefrom the attenuated version of the pseudorandom code waveform obtained in step (b);
- (d) correlating the attenuated versions of transmitted waveforms with waveforms resulting from subtraction in step (c);
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- (e) recognizing an echo only when an output of the correlation in step (d) exceeds the predetermined threshold.
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A plurality of substantially interference-free radar systems, each comprising:
- means for generating pseudorandom waveforms for sequential transmission by radar;
- means for tapping the pseudorandom waveform generated and transmitted;
- means for adjustably attenuating the tapped waveform to provide an attenuated version of the tapped waveform for cancellation of leakage of transmitted waveforms to a predetermined threshold;
- means for correlating said adjustably attenuated versions of said pseudorandom waveforms with received echoes thereof wherein the adjustably attenuated versions are subtracted from said received echoes before correlation;
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- a radar transmitting and received phased array antenna having a horizontal beam angle of a few milli-radians.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.